Hurricane Network's Explained

• They have multiple POPs in thousands of sites.

• They don't own or lease fiber.

• I'm told all they do is build the POP, and then charge others to connect to it in the colocation hotel (via cabling in equipment racks). If so, what's stopping others from building a POP, offering connectivity to it for free (i.e. major ISP), and bypassing HE?

• I'm clearly missing something. If HE isn't a transit provider, what's the benefit of peering with them?